<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbsh</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbsh.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbsh &#8212; Allows access to remote SMB shares
	using UNIX commands</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">smbsh</code> [-W workgroup] [-U username] [-P prefix] [-R &lt;name resolve order&gt;] [-d &lt;debug level&gt;] [-l logdir] [-L libdir]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2507195"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p><code class="literal">smbsh</code> allows you to access an NT filesystem
	using UNIX commands such as <code class="literal">ls</code>, <code class="literal">
	egrep</code>, and <code class="literal">rcp</code>. You must use a
	shell that is dynamically linked in order for <code class="literal">smbsh</code>
	to work correctly.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2507248"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-W WORKGROUP</span></dt><dd><p>Override the default workgroup specified in the
		workgroup parameter of the <a class="citerefentry" href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a> file
		for this session. This may be needed to connect to some
		servers. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-U username[%pass]</span></dt><dd><p>Sets the SMB username or username and password.
		If this option is not specified, the user will be prompted for
		both the username and the password.  If %pass is not specified,
		the user will be prompted for the password.
		</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-P prefix</span></dt><dd><p>This option allows
		the user to set the directory prefix for SMB access. The
		default value if this option is not specified is
		<span class="emphasis"><em>smb</em></span>.
		</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s &lt;configuration file&gt;</span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the
configuration details required by the server.  The
information in this file includes server-specific
information such as what printcap file to use, as well
as descriptions of all the services that the server is
to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information.
The default configuration file name is determined at
compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer
from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is
not specified is 0.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be
logged to the log files about the activities of the
server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious
warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for
day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable
amounts of log data, and should only be used when
investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for
use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log
data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will
override the <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#LOGLEVEL">log level</a> parameter
in the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-R &lt;name resolve order&gt;</span></dt><dd><p>This option is used to determine what naming
services and in what order to resolve
host names to IP addresses. The option takes a space-separated
string of different name resolution options.</p><p>The options are: "lmhosts", "host", "wins" and "bcast".
They cause names to be resolved as follows :</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><code class="constant">lmhosts</code>:
Lookup an IP address in the Samba lmhosts file. If the
line in lmhosts has no name type attached to the
NetBIOS name
(see the <a class="citerefentry" href="lmhosts.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lmhosts</span>(5)</span></a>	for details)
then any name type matches for lookup.
</p></li><li><p><code class="constant">host</code>:
Do a standard host name to IP address resolution, using
the system <code class="filename">/etc/hosts</code>, NIS, or DNS
lookups. This method of name resolution is operating
system dependent, for instance on IRIX or Solaris this
may be controlled by the <code class="filename">/etc/nsswitch.conf
</code> file).  Note that this method is only used
if the NetBIOS name type being queried is the 0x20
(server) name type, otherwise it is ignored.
</p></li><li><p><code class="constant">wins</code>:
Query a name with the IP address listed in the
<em class="parameter"><code>wins server</code></em> parameter.  If no
WINS server has been specified this method will be
ignored.
</p></li><li><p><code class="constant">bcast</code>:
Do a broadcast on each of the known local interfaces
listed in the <em class="parameter"><code>interfaces</code></em>
parameter. This is the least reliable of the name
resolution methods as it depends on the target host
being on a locally connected subnet.
</p></li></ul></div><p>If this parameter is not set then the name resolve order
defined in the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file parameter
(<a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#NAMERESOLVEORDER">name resolve order</a>) will be used.
</p><p>The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast. Without
this parameter or any entry in the <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#NAMERESOLVEORDER">name resolve order</a> parameter of the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file, the name
resolution methods will be attempted in this order. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-L libdir</span></dt><dd><p>This parameter specifies the location of the
		shared libraries used by <code class="literal">smbsh</code>. The default
		value is specified at compile time.
		</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2506378"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p>To use the <code class="literal">smbsh</code> command, execute <code class="literal">
	smbsh</code> from the prompt and enter the username and password
	that authenticates you to the machine running the Windows NT
	operating system.
</p><pre class="programlisting">
<code class="prompt">system% </code><strong class="userinput"><code>smbsh</code></strong>
<code class="prompt">Username: </code><strong class="userinput"><code>user</code></strong>
<code class="prompt">Password: </code><strong class="userinput"><code>XXXXXXX</code></strong>
</pre><p>Any dynamically linked command you execute from
	this shell will access the <code class="filename">/smb</code> directory
	using the smb protocol. For example, the command <code class="literal">ls /smb
	</code> will show a list of workgroups. The command
	<code class="literal">ls /smb/MYGROUP </code> will show all the machines in
	the  workgroup MYGROUP. The command
	<code class="literal">ls /smb/MYGROUP/&lt;machine-name&gt;</code> will show the share
	names for that machine. You could then, for example, use the <code class="literal">
	cd</code> command to change directories, <code class="literal">vi</code> to
	edit files, and <code class="literal">rcp</code>  to copy files.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2506489"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2506500"></a><h2>BUGS</h2><p><code class="literal">smbsh</code> works by intercepting the standard
	libc calls with the dynamically loaded versions in <code class="filename">
	smbwrapper.o</code>. Not all calls have been "wrapped", so
	some programs may not function correctly under <code class="literal">smbsh
	</code>.</p><p>Programs which are not dynamically linked cannot make
	use of <code class="literal">smbsh</code>'s functionality. Most versions
	of UNIX have a <code class="literal">file</code> command that will
	describe how a program was linked.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2506547"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a class="citerefentry" href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a>, <a class="citerefentry" href="smb.conf.5.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smb.conf</span>(5)</span></a></p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2506570"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
	were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
	by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
	to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
	The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
	excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
	ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
	release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
	Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
	for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>
